Michael Napier Brown

In 1953 he began a career in journalism with the Bournemouth Daily Echo while continuing to take part in amateur dramatics.

In 1958 Napier Brown won 'Most Promising Actor', the prize for which was a small silver cup, an agent and a summer season in Guernsey.

[1] He joined The Penguin Players in 1959, meeting his wife Vilma Hollingbery in the same year, and marrying her in 1961 at Eastbourne.

[4] Napier Brown remained at the Royal Theatre for over 20 years (where he directed over 130 productions) and wrote the plays Is This the Day?

(1990), co-written with his wife Vilma Hollingbery and which won the Eileen Anderson Central TV award for Best New Play.

He also wrote dramatisations based on Wuthering Heights (1994), An Old Man's Love (1996), Northanger Abbey (1998), The Turn of the Screw (1999) and Emma (2000).